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  Speaker 1: Imagine a hot day in the desert. The people of
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  Speaker 1: Israel are gathered to hear the words of Moses. It's
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  Speaker 1: a special moment, one where he would reveal something fundamental
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  Speaker 1: about God. With a firm and clear voice, Moses proclaims
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  Speaker 1: the words we find in Deuteronomy chapter six, verse four. Here,
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  Speaker 1: O Israel, the Lord, our God, The Lord is one.
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  Speaker 1: These words echo across the mountains and valleys, imprinting on
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  Speaker 1: the people's hearts an unshakable truth. There is only one
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  Speaker 1: true God. This idea of a single God was revolutionary
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  Speaker 1: at the time. All the surrounding nations worshiped many gods,
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  Speaker 1: gods of reign, of the sun, of war, of love.
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  Speaker 1: But Israel knew a different truth. There is only one God,
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  Speaker 1: creator of all things, Lord of the entire universe. Moses
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  Speaker 1: declaration is the foundation of faith, one God, not many gods,
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  Speaker 1: as the neighboring nations believed, not a divided or partial deity,
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  Speaker 1: acur complete, perfect and singular God. This is the groundwork
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  Speaker 1: we need to understand before we can talk about the Trinity.
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  Speaker 1: So what is the trinity? It's the truth that this
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  Speaker 1: one God exists as three distinct persons, The Father the Son,
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  Speaker 1: and the Holy Spirit. Each of these persons is fully God,
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  Speaker 1: not a third of God, not a part of God,
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  Speaker 1: but holy and completely God. And yet there are not
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  Speaker 1: three Gods but one. Sounds confusing. It's like a mystery
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  Speaker 1: that God gradually revealed over time. At first he showed
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  Speaker 1: his people that He is one. Then over time he
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  Speaker 1: began to give hints about his more complex nature. In
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament, these hints appear like faint lights on
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  Speaker 1: the horizon, signaling the coming dawn. God reveals himself in
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  Speaker 1: different ways, showing various aspects of his nature, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not yet the full picture. It's as though we're seeing
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  Speaker 1: only shadows and outlines. In the New Testament, it's as
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  Speaker 1: if the sun rises, fully revealing the entire landscape. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: comes into the world, the Holy Spirit descends on the disciples,
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  Speaker 1: and finally we can see clearly God is one in
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  Speaker 1: essence and three in person, a perfect unity in diversity.
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  Speaker 1: This gradual revelation shows God's care. He knows our minds
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  Speaker 1: are limited, so he leads us step by step toward
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  Speaker 1: the full truth. First, he establishes firmly that he is
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  Speaker 1: the one and only God, pushing back against idolatry. Then
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  Speaker 1: he reveals that within this one God, there are three
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  Speaker 1: distinct persons, each with a specific role in his divine plan.
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  Speaker 1: The story begins at the very beginning, before anything existed.
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  Speaker 1: There was no sky or earth, no light or darkness.
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  Speaker 1: And then God speaks his voice, echoes into the void,
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  Speaker 1: and brings everything into existence. But there's a special man moment.
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  Speaker 1: When God is about to create human beings, he says
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  Speaker 1: something curious found in Genesis chapter one, verse twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: Let us make man in our image after our likeness.
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  Speaker 1: Let us r Why does God use plural words? Isn't
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  Speaker 1: he one? This is one of the first hints of
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  Speaker 1: the trinity in scripture. God speaks as though he is
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  Speaker 1: in communion, in conversation with someone. This is not the
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  Speaker 1: royal we as some suggest. It's God revealing that even
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  Speaker 1: though he is one, there is a plurality within him.
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  Speaker 1: This pattern continues elsewhere in Genesis. After Adam and Eve
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  Speaker 1: fall in Genesis chapter three, verse twenty two, God says, behold,
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  Speaker 1: the man has become like one of us. And at
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  Speaker 1: the Tower of Babel in Genesis chapter eleven, verse seven,
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  Speaker 1: he says, let us go down and confuse their language
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  Speaker 1: again and again. This intriguing use of the plural suggests
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  Speaker 1: a communion within the vine being. Years go by, and
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  Speaker 1: we find Abraham sitting at the entrance of his tent
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  Speaker 1: in the heat of the day. Suddenly he sees three
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  Speaker 1: men approaching. He runs to greet them, offering them water, food,
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  Speaker 1: and rest. The conversation unfolds, and something strange happens. Though
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  Speaker 1: there are three visitors, the text sometimes speaks as if
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  Speaker 1: there is only one. Then the Lord said to Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: This Angel of the Lord, who appears to Abraham and
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  Speaker 1: later to Jacob, Moses, and Gideon, seems to be God,
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  Speaker 1: yet also distinct from God. When Jacob wrestles with a
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  Speaker 1: mysterious man at penial, he declares in Genesis chapter thirty two,
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  Speaker 1: verse thirty, I have seen God face to face, and
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  Speaker 1: yet my life was spared. But we know that no
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  Speaker 1: one can see God and live, as he himself tells
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  Speaker 1: Moses in Exodus chapter thirty three, verse twenty. So who
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  Speaker 1: was this being Jacob wrestled with. It was the Angel
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord, a divine manifestation who somehow is God
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  Speaker 1: and yet distinct from him. And from the very beginning
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  Speaker 1: of creation. We see the Spirit of God moving over
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  Speaker 1: the surface of the waters. As it says in Genesis
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  Speaker 1: chapter one, verse two. This spirit is not just a force.
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  Speaker 1: He comforts, teaches, guides, and even grieves. As we see
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  Speaker 1: throughout the Bible, there's also the Word of God, not
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  Speaker 1: just what God says, but something more. In Psalm thirty three,
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  Speaker 1: verse six, we read by the Word of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: the heavens were made. This word seems to have its
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  Speaker 1: own power and presence, acting as the agent through whom
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  Speaker 1: God creates and reveals his will. So even without a
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  Speaker 1: full revelation, the Old Testament already gives us glimpses of
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  Speaker 1: these three divine persons, God, his Spirit, and his Word,
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  Speaker 1: or the Angel of the Lord. The puzzle was beginning
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  Speaker 1: to take shape. Peace by peace, pece. Time passes, the
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  Speaker 1: people of Israel grow, are delivered from Egypt, conquer the
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  Speaker 1: Promised Land, and live through the time of judges and kings.
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  Speaker 1: We arrive at the age of the prophets, men chosen
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  Speaker 1: to speak God's word to the people. Among them is Isiah,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps the greatest of all. One day, Isaiah has a
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  Speaker 1: stunning vision. He sees the Lord seated on a high
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  Speaker 1: and exalted throne, surrounded by heavenly beings called seraphim. These
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  Speaker 1: majestic creatures cover their faces and feet with their wings
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  Speaker 1: in reverence. And what do they call out to one another?
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  Speaker 1: In Yiareh chapter six, verse three, we find their words, Holy, Holy, Holy,
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  Speaker 1: is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full
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  Speaker 1: of his glory. This threefold declaration is no accident. It's
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  Speaker 1: as if Heaven itself is acknowledging God's triune nature, proclaiming
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  Speaker 1: the holiness of each person of the Trinity. Later, the
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  Speaker 1: say Isaiah prophesies about a child who would be born,
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  Speaker 1: a son who would be given, and what extraordinary names
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  Speaker 1: he would receive. In Isaiah chapter nine, verse six, we read,
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  Speaker 1: and his name shall be called Wonderful counselor Mighty God,
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  Speaker 1: Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. This prophecy reveals that the
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  Speaker 1: promised Messiah would not be just an ordinary man or
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  Speaker 1: a king like others. He would be called Mighty God
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  Speaker 1: and Everlasting Father, divine titles for someone who would be
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  Speaker 1: born as a human child. How can a baby be
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  Speaker 1: called Mighty God? How can a child receive the title
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  Speaker 1: Everlasting Father? These questions find their answers. Only in the
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  Speaker 1: doctrine of the Trinity, the eternal Son of God, the
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  Speaker 1: second person of the Trinity, would become human, born as
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  Speaker 1: a child, yet without ceasing to be fully God. Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: continues his revelations in Isaiah Maiah chapter eleven, verse two.
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  Speaker 1: He describes how the spirit would rest upon this Messiah.
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  Speaker 1: The spirit of the Lord will rest on him, the
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  Speaker 1: spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might,
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord. Here
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  Speaker 1: we clearly see the three persons together, the Lord, the Father,
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  Speaker 1: the Messiah, the Son, and the Spirit. And there's more.
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  Speaker 1: In Isaiah chapter forty two, verse one, God presents his
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  Speaker 1: chosen servant. Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my
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  Speaker 1: chosen one in whom I delight. I will put my
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  Speaker 1: spirit on him, and he will bring justice to the nations.
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  Speaker 1: Once again, the three divine persons appear together, God speaking,
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  Speaker 1: the Father, the Chosen Servant, the Son, and the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: resting upon him. Isiah's prophecies are like a beacon lighting
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  Speaker 1: the way toward the full revelation of the Trinity. What
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  Speaker 1: were once mere clues now begin to take clearer shape.
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  Speaker 1: The one true God is revealing himself as Father, Son
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  Speaker 1: and Holy Spirit. Centuries pass the prophecies await fulfillment. Then
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  Speaker 1: on the banks of the Jordan River, something extraordinary happens. Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the carpenter from Nazareth around thirty years old, steps into
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  Speaker 1: the water to be baptized by John the Baptist. John hesitates,
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  Speaker 1: knowing Jesus doesn't need a baptism of repentance, but Jesus insists,
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  Speaker 1: saying it is necessary to fulfill all righteousness. As Jesus
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  Speaker 1: comes up out of the water, the heavens open. The
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  Speaker 1: spirit of God descends like a dove and rests on Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: and a voice from heaven speaks. This breathtaking moment is
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  Speaker 1: recorded in Matthew chapter three, verses sixteen and seventeen. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of
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  Speaker 1: the water. At that moment, heaven was opened, and he
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  Speaker 1: saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and
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  Speaker 1: coming to rest on him, and a voice from heaven said,
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  Speaker 1: this is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.
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  Speaker 1: It's a stunning scene. Those around must have been awe struck,
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  Speaker 1: unable to fully grasp what they were witnessing. This moment
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  Speaker 1: is unique in all of history. For the first time,
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  Speaker 1: the three persons of the Trinity are revealed simultaneously and distinctly.
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  Speaker 1: The Father speaks from heaven, the Son is on earth
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  Speaker 1: being baptized, and the Holy Spirit descends visibly like a dove.
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  Speaker 1: There is no longer any room for doubt. The One
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  Speaker 1: True God exists as three persons. Throughout his ministry, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: often speaks of his intimate relationship with the Father and
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit. He prays to the Father, receives guidance from
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  Speaker 1: the Father, and does the Father's will. At the same time,
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  Speaker 1: he promises to send the Holy Spirit as the comforter.
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  Speaker 1: After his departure, the three divine persons are constantly interacting
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  Speaker 1: in perfect communion. Years later, after his death and resurrection,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus gathers his disciples on a mountain in Galilee. It
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  Speaker 1: is time to give them his final instruction, known as
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  Speaker 1: the Great Commission. In Matthew chapter twenty eight, verse nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus says, therefore, go and make disciples of all nations,
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  Speaker 1: baptizing them in the name of the Father and of
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  Speaker 1: the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Notice Jesus doesn't
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  Speaker 1: say in the names plural, but in the name singular,
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  Speaker 1: one name for three persons, showing unity in diversity. The
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  Speaker 1: Apostolic letters continue this revelation. Paul ends his second letter
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  Speaker 1: to the Corinthians with a trinitarian blessing. In Second Corinthians,
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  Speaker 1: chapter thirteen, verse fourteen, he writes, may the grace of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus Christ, the Love of God, and the
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  Speaker 1: fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. He
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  Speaker 1: mentions all three divine persons, each with a distinct role
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  Speaker 1: in the believers life. Peter also uses a trinitarian formula
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  Speaker 1: in greeting the Christians in his first letter. In First Peter,
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  Speaker 1: chapter one, verse two, he says that we are chosen
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  Speaker 1: according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the
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  Speaker 1: sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: and sprinkling by His blood. Again, the three persons appear together,
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  Speaker 1: working in harmony for the salvation of believers. The New
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  Speaker 1: Testament therefore leaves no room for doubt. What were hints
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  Speaker 1: and shadows in the Old Testament are now a clear
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  Speaker 1: and complete revelation. The One True God exists eternally as
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  Speaker 1: Father Son, and Holy Spirit. But how do these three
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  Speaker 1: persons relate to one another. It's like an itt dance
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  Speaker 1: of love and communion. Each person is fully God, sharing
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  Speaker 1: the same divine essence. There are not three Gods, but
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  Speaker 1: one God, who exists in three persons. Jesus makes this
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  Speaker 1: clear when he says in John chapter ten, verse thirty,
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  Speaker 1: I and the Father are one. He affirms his unity
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  Speaker 1: of essence with the Father. Both are equally God. When
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  Speaker 1: Philip asks Jesus to show them the Father, Jesus responds
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  Speaker 1: in John chapter fourteen, verse nine, whoever has seen me
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  Speaker 1: has seen the Father. Not that Jesus is the Father,
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  Speaker 1: but that he perfectly reveals the Father because they share
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  Speaker 1: the same divine nature. However, on another occasion, Jesus says
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  Speaker 1: in John chapter fourteen, verse twenty eight, the Father is
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  Speaker 1: greater than I, not in essence or nature, but in
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  Speaker 1: role or function within the divine economy. It says. If
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is saying we are equally and being but different
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  Speaker 1: in role, the Holy Spirit is also fully God. When
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  Speaker 1: Anonius and Sapphier lied about the money from the sale
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  Speaker 1: of their property, Peter asked, as recorded in Acts chapter five,
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  Speaker 1: verses three and four Anonius, Why has Satan filled your
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  Speaker 1: heart to lie to the Holy Spirit? And then added,
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  Speaker 1: you have not lied to men but to God. To
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  Speaker 1: lie to the Holy Spirit is to lie to God,
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  Speaker 1: because the Holy Spirit is God. Despite the unity of essence,
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  Speaker 1: there are distinctions among the divine persons. The Father is
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  Speaker 1: not the Son, the Son is not the Spirit, and
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit is not the Father. Each has his own
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  Speaker 1: eternal and distinct identity. The Father is always the Father,
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  Speaker 1: the Son is always the Son, and the Spirit is
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  Speaker 1: always the Spirit. These distinctions did not begin with creation
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  Speaker 1: or the incarnation. They are return However, these distinctions do
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  Speaker 1: not imply separation. The three persons dwell in one another
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  Speaker 1: in a relationship of perfect and eternal love. Jesus speaks
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  Speaker 1: of this mutual in dwelling in John fourteen ten, saying
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  Speaker 1: I am in the Father and the Father is in me.
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  Speaker 1: And regarding the Holy Spirit, he says in John fourteen seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: he lives with you and will be in you. The
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  Speaker 1: persons of the Trinity also relate to each other through origins.
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  Speaker 1: The Son is eternally begotten of the Father, not created,
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  Speaker 1: not made, but begotten in a continual and eternal way.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is referred to as the only begotten of the
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  Speaker 1: Father in John one fourteen, highlighting this unique relationship. The
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit in turn, proceeds from the Father and the Son,
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  Speaker 1: as Jesus teaches in John fifteen twenty six. But when
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  Speaker 1: the helper comes, whom I will send to you from
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  Speaker 1: the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father,
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  Speaker 1: he will testify about me. When we look at the
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  Speaker 1: starry sky or admire the beauty of a flower, we
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  Speaker 1: are witnessing the work of the Trinity. Creation was not
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  Speaker 1: carried out by the Father alone, but by all three
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  Speaker 1: divine persons working in perfect harmony. The Father is the
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  Speaker 1: originator of creation. Everything begins with him and his sovereign will.
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  Speaker 1: As we read in Revelation four eleven, You created all things,
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  Speaker 1: and by your will they exist and were created. The
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  Speaker 1: Father is the primary source of all that exists. He
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  Speaker 1: is the one who decides, plans, and determines everything according
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  Speaker 1: to the counsel of his will. Have you ever stopped
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  Speaker 1: to wonder what existed before creation? There was no universe,
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  Speaker 1: no time, no space. There was only God, the Father,
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  Speaker 1: the Son, and the Holy Spirit in perfect communion. And
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  Speaker 1: then out of sheer love and grace, the Father decided
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  Speaker 1: to create a universe that could reflect his glory and
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  Speaker 1: share in his love. The Son is the agent of creation.
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  Speaker 1: Through him, all things came into existence. In John one three,
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  Speaker 1: we read all things were made through him, and without him,
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  Speaker 1: nothing was made that has been made. Paul affirms this
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  Speaker 1: in Collosians one sixteen. For by him all things were created,
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  Speaker 1: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether
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  Speaker 1: thrones or dominions, or rulers or authorities, all things were
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  Speaker 1: created through him and for him. That means every galaxy,
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  Speaker 1: every star, every planet, every mountain, every ocean, every tree,
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  Speaker 1: every flower, every animal, and every human being was created
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  Speaker 1: by the Sun. Nothing exists that wasn't made through him.
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  Speaker 1: And more than that, everything was created not only by him,
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  Speaker 1: but for him. The entire universe exists to glorify the Son,
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  Speaker 1: together with the Father and the Spirit. The Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: is the life giver of creation. From Genesis one two,
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  Speaker 1: we see the Spirit of God hovering over the surface
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  Speaker 1: of the waters, bringing life and order to the newly
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  Speaker 1: created universe. In Psalm one hundred four thirty we read,
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  Speaker 1: when you send your spirit, they are created and you
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  Speaker 1: renew the face of the earth. The Spirit is like
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  Speaker 1: the breath of life that animates creation. He brings life, order,
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  Speaker 1: and beauty to everything the Father planned and the Son accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: When God formed Adam from the dust of the earth,
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  Speaker 1: it was the divine breath in his nostrils that made
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  Speaker 1: him a living soul. As we see in Genesis two seven,
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  Speaker 1: that breath is a symbol of the Holy Spirit, the
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  Speaker 1: life giver. The three persons work together, each fulfilling a
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  Speaker 1: specific role, but in perfect unity. It's like a flawless symphony,
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  Speaker 1: where each instrument has its part, but all come together
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  Speaker 1: to produce a harmonious masterpiece. This cooperative work doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that one person of the Trinity is more important than
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  Speaker 1: the others. In creation, all are equally essential and equally involved.
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  Speaker 1: The Father plans, the Son carries it out. The Spirit
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  Speaker 1: gives life, but all are creators. Just as in creation,
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  Speaker 1: redemption is also a work of the Trinity. Even before
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  Speaker 1: the foundation of the world, the three divine persons jointly
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  Speaker 1: planned the salvation of humanity. This eternal plan involved each
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  Speaker 1: one specifically, but always in perfect harmony. Picture the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Even before the world was created, the Father, the Son,
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  Speaker 1: and the Holy Spirit already knew that humanity would fall
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  Speaker 1: into sin. They already knew a rescue plan would be needed,
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  Speaker 1: a plan of redemption, and together in the Eternal Council,
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  Speaker 1: they formed this perfect plan. The Father is the one
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  Speaker 1: who sent the Son into the world. His love motivated
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  Speaker 1: the entire plan of redemption, as Jesus himself explains in
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  Speaker 1: John three sixteen. For God so loved the world that
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  Speaker 1: he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes
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  Speaker 1: in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. The
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  Speaker 1: Father is the source of the saving love that reaches
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  Speaker 1: fallen humanity. Just think about how great that love is.
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  Speaker 1: The Father not only created the world, but when the
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  Speaker 1: world rebelled against him, instead of destroying it, he chose
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  Speaker 1: to save it at immense personal cost, the sacrifice of
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  Speaker 1: his own Lias son, as Paul writes in Romans five eight.
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  Speaker 1: But God demonstrates his own love for us in this
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  Speaker 1: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. The
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  Speaker 1: Son is the one who came into the world and
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  Speaker 1: took on human flesh. In his Letter to the Philippians,
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  Speaker 1: Paul describes this incredible act of humility in Philippians two
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  Speaker 1: five to eleven. He writes, being in very nature God,
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  Speaker 1: he did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
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  Speaker 1: but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being
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  Speaker 1: made in human likeness, and being found in appearance as
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  Speaker 1: a man. He humbled himself by becoming obedient to death,
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  Speaker 1: even death on a cross. Jesus is the one who
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  Speaker 1: carried out the plan of salvation, the one who, on
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  Speaker 1: the cross paid the price for our sins. Just imagine
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  Speaker 1: what it meant for the eternal son of God to
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  Speaker 1: leave heavenly glory, to become a human baby, to grow
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  Speaker 1: up as a man, to face temptation, fatigue, and rejection,
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  Speaker 1: and finally to die the most painful and humiliating death,
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  Speaker 1: all for love of us. As Isaiah fifty three five says,
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  Speaker 1: he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for
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  Speaker 1: our iniquities. The punishment that brought us peace was on him,
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  Speaker 1: and by his wounds we are healed. The Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: is the one who applies redemption in the lives of believers.
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  Speaker 1: He regenerates us, sanctifies us, and empowers us to live
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  Speaker 1: as children of God. Paul explains this in Titus three
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  Speaker 1: five to six. He saved us not because of righteous
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  Speaker 1: things we had done, but because of His mercy. He
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  Speaker 1: saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously
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  Speaker 1: through Jesus Christ, our savior. It is the Spirit who
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  Speaker 1: makes Christ's accomplished salvation effective in us. But how can
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  Speaker 1: we grasp something as profound as the Trinity? How can
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  Speaker 1: a finite mind comprehend the infinite God, who is one
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  Speaker 1: in essence and three in persons? To help us with this,
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  Speaker 1: Theologians and Christian teachers have used various analogies throughout the centuries.
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  Speaker 1: While none are perfect, they offer glimpses into this divine reality.
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  Speaker 1: A common analogy is water. Water can exist in three states,
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  Speaker 1: solid ice, liquid water, and gas vapor. In each state,
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  Speaker 1: it retains its chemical essence H two O, but appears
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  Speaker 1: in different forms. You can hold a cube of ice,
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  Speaker 1: melt it in a pan, then boil it into steam.
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  Speaker 1: It's always the same substance, just in distinct forms. Similarly,
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  Speaker 1: God is always God in essence, yet manner infests as Father,
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  Speaker 1: son and Holy Spirit. Of course, this analogy has its limitations.
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  Speaker 1: Water doesn't exist in all three states at once, whereas
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  Speaker 1: God exists eternally as three persons. Moreover, water changes from
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  Speaker 1: one state to another, while the persons of the Trinity
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  Speaker 1: are unchanging. Still, the image can help us grasp how
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  Speaker 1: something can be one in essence and multiple in manifestation.
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  Speaker 1: Another analogy is light. Light has the properties of a wave,
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  Speaker 1: a particle, and energy, yet it remains one reality. Scientists
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  Speaker 1: still marvel at this triune nature of light, which in
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  Speaker 1: some way reflects the try personal nature of God. Light
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  Speaker 1: is one, yet it manifests in three distinct and complementary
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  Speaker 1: ways without ceasing to be light in its essence. Again,
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  Speaker 1: the analogy falls short. Light, though it has a triune nature,
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  Speaker 1: lacks personality like the person's of the Trinity. There's no
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  Speaker 1: relationship between the wave, the particle, and the energy of light,
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  Speaker 1: as there is between the Father, Son and Spirit. But
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  Speaker 1: the image helps us see how something can be complex
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  Speaker 1: in nature while remaining unified. A third analogy is the
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  Speaker 1: equilateral triangle. A triangle has three equal angles, all essential
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  Speaker 1: to form the shape. If you remove one, it's no
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  Speaker 1: longer a triangle. In the same way, each person of
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  Speaker 1: the Trinity is essential to the Godhead, and all are
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  Speaker 1: equal in importance. The triangle is a single figure, yet
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  Speaker 1: composed of three distinct, equally necessary components. Yet again, the
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  Speaker 1: analogy is imperfect. A triangle being a geometric figure doesn't
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  Speaker 1: capture the personal and relational nature of God. The angles
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  Speaker 1: of a triangle don't have lives of their own, nor
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  Speaker 1: do they relate to one another, as the person's of
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  Speaker 1: the Trinity do. Also, the angles are parts of the triangle,
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  Speaker 1: while each person of the Trinity is fully God, not
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  Speaker 1: just a part of God. These analogies are helpful, but
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  Speaker 1: all have their limits. The truth is that no human
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  Speaker 1: analogy can fully capture the reality of God, as the
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  Speaker 1: apostle Paul acknowledges in First Corinthians thirteen twelve, for now
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  Speaker 1: we see only a reflection, as in a mirror. Then
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  Speaker 1: we shall see face to face. Now I know in part,
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  Speaker 1: Then I shall know fully even as I am fully known.
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  Speaker 1: When Jesus taught his disciples to pray, he began with
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  Speaker 1: the words our Father in Heaven. In these simple words
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  Speaker 1: from Matthew six', Nine jesus reveals something fundamental in The.
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  Speaker 1: Trinity The father holds the first place in the order
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  Speaker 1: of the divine, persons not that he is More god
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  Speaker 1: than the, others but that from him everything. Flows think
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  Speaker 1: of The father as an inexhaustible. Spring from a spring comes,
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  Speaker 1: fresh clean water that flows into rivers and nourishes the.
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  Speaker 1: Land in the same, way from The father flows all.
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  Speaker 1: Divinity he is the, origin the source of all. Things
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  Speaker 1: not that he created The son or The, spirit for
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  Speaker 1: both are as eternal as he. Is but within the
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  Speaker 1: inner life of The, trinity The father is the one
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  Speaker 1: from whom The son and The spirit. Proceed john understood
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  Speaker 1: this well in His First. Letter he writes that our
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  Speaker 1: fellowship is with The father and with his Son Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Christ The father always comes first in, mention not because
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  Speaker 1: he is more, important but because he is the. Source
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  Speaker 1: have you ever stopped to think about what it means
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  Speaker 1: that The father is the father of the. Sun it's
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  Speaker 1: a relationship of perfect and eternal. Love long before the
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  Speaker 1: world was, created The father loved The. Son jesus reveals
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  Speaker 1: this in his prayer when he, Says, father you love
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  Speaker 1: me before the foundation of the. World it's a relationship
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  Speaker 1: so deep that we humans can only catch a glimpse of.
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  Speaker 1: It in the love of the best earthly. Fathers this
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  Speaker 1: father is not a distant. Dictator he does have, authority
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  Speaker 1: but an authority grounded in. Love in the divine plan of.
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  Speaker 1: Redemption it was The father who sent The son into the.
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  Speaker 1: World he planned our salvation from eternity. Past he is
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  Speaker 1: the one who has determined that at the end of,
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  Speaker 1: time all things will be handed over to The. Son
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  Speaker 1: the father's authority is also seen in. Creation he, speaks
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  Speaker 1: and worlds come into. Being he, commands and the stars
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  Speaker 1: a line he, wills and the seas are. Stilled he
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  Speaker 1: is the great architect of the, universe whose word is.
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  Speaker 1: Law but the most amazing thing is that this all Powerful,
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  Speaker 1: god this eternal source of, diviney this majestic, creator wants
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  Speaker 1: us to call him. Father jesus taught us to pray
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  Speaker 1: like this our father in, heaven not our, creator not Our,
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  Speaker 1: lord but Our. Father what, Intimacy what a privilege to
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  Speaker 1: approach the king of the universe and call him. Father
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  Speaker 1: many know the story of the Prodigal. SON a rebellious
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  Speaker 1: young man asks for his, inheritance wastes it, all ends
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  Speaker 1: up feeding, pigs and finally decides to return. Home what
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  Speaker 1: does he expect may be at best to be accepted
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  Speaker 1: as a. Servant but what does he find a father
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  Speaker 1: running to meet, him embracing, him kissing, him dressing him
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  Speaker 1: in the finest, robes and throwing a. Feast this is Our,
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  Speaker 1: god The, father always ready to welcome his children back
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  Speaker 1: with open. Arms when we think Of god The, father
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  Speaker 1: perhaps the first image that comes to mind is that
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  Speaker 1: of a, creator and rightly. So at the very beginning
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  Speaker 1: of The book Of, genesis we see The father calling
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  Speaker 1: all things into. Existence let there be, light he, says
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  Speaker 1: and light. Appears let there be a firmament and the waters.
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  Speaker 1: Separate let the earth, produce and plants of every kind
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  Speaker 1: spring up from the. Soil every time he, speaks something
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  Speaker 1: new emerges in the. Universe but The father doesn't just,
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  Speaker 1: Create he also. Sustains imagine if we had to consciously
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  Speaker 1: remember to make our hearts, beat our lungs, breathe or
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  Speaker 1: the earth's spin on its, axis it would be. Impossible,
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  Speaker 1: thankfully The father takes care of all these things for,
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  Speaker 1: us As paul explains in his speech at The areopagus
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  Speaker 1: recorded In act seventeen twenty, eight in him we live
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  Speaker 1: and move and have our. Being it is The father's
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  Speaker 1: sustaining power that keeps the universe running perfectly every. Second
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  Speaker 1: and what is the heart of this creator and sustain?
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  Speaker 1: Alike john gives us the simplest yet most profound answer
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  Speaker 1: in His First, Letter chapter, three verse. One see what
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  Speaker 1: great love The father has lavished on. Us that we
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  Speaker 1: should be called children Of, god and that is what we.
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  Speaker 1: Are The father's love is so, immense so, astonishing That
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  Speaker 1: john invites us to pause and behold. It, see he,
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  Speaker 1: says like someone pointing to a breathtaking. View this love
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  Speaker 1: is not. Conditional it doesn't depend on our merits or.
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  Speaker 1: Achievements The father doesn't love us because we are, good
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  Speaker 1: but because he is. Good his love is unconditional and.
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  Speaker 1: Inexhaustible it overflows and pours out on us even when
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  Speaker 1: we are at our. Worst but don't think this love
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  Speaker 1: means The father overlooks. Evil his holiness is. Absolute isiah
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  Speaker 1: had a vision of The father seated on his, throne
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  Speaker 1: and the angels surrounding him cried, Out, Holy, Holy, holy
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  Speaker 1: is The Lord. Almighty this triple repetition In isaiah six
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  Speaker 1: underscores just how separate The father is from all, evil
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  Speaker 1: pure in his, purposes and perfect in his. Character that
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  Speaker 1: holiness goes hand in hand with. Justice The father is
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  Speaker 1: the judge of all the, earth As abraham acknowledged when
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  Speaker 1: interceding For. Sodom will not the judge of all the
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  Speaker 1: earth do? Right he asked In genesis eighteen twenty. Five
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  Speaker 1: The father cannot leave evil, unpunished for doing so would
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  Speaker 1: violate his just. Nature but how can The father be
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  Speaker 1: both loving and? Just how can he forgive sinners without
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  Speaker 1: compromising his? Holiness the answer lies in The, cross where
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  Speaker 1: love and justice. Meet out of, love The father sent
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  Speaker 1: The son to bear the punishment that justice required of.
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  Speaker 1: Us The father's sovereignty is also evident throughout the biblical.
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  Speaker 1: Record nothing escapes his, control even if that seem, random
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  Speaker 1: are under his. Supervision even the very hairs of your
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  Speaker 1: head are all, Numbered jesus said In matthew ten, thirty
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  Speaker 1: revealing The father's meticulous. Care this providential care extends to all.
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  Speaker 1: Creation The father feeds the birds of the air and
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  Speaker 1: clothes the lilies of the, field As jesus teaches in
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  Speaker 1: The sermon on The, mount how much more will he
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  Speaker 1: care for, us his beloved. Children The father knows what we,
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  Speaker 1: need even before we. Ask he anticipates our needs and
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  Speaker 1: is constantly working for our. Good In god's divine, order
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  Speaker 1: The son holds the second, place not second in importance or,
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  Speaker 1: divinity but in the relational sequence of The. Trinity from all,
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  Speaker 1: eternity even before time, existed The son was with The.
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  Speaker 1: Father john captures this truth with elegant simplicity in His,
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  Speaker 1: Gospel chapter, one verse. One in the beginning was The,
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  Speaker 1: word and The word was With, god and The word Was.
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  Speaker 1: God Notice john doesn't say The word began to exist
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  Speaker 1: or The word was. Created he says The word. Was
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  Speaker 1: this points to eternal, existence no. Beginning The son has
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  Speaker 1: always existed As. God he was not made or. Created
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  Speaker 1: he simply. Is this Eternal son is the perfect image
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  Speaker 1: of the Invisible. Father, paul writing to The, colossian says
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  Speaker 1: In chapter, one verse, fifteen The son is the image
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  Speaker 1: of the Invisible, god the firstborn over all. Creation When
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  Speaker 1: paul says, image he's not talking about a copy or,
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  Speaker 1: imitation but an exact. Representation The son reveals The father.
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  Speaker 1: Perfectly the word firstborn used By paul doesn't mean The
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  Speaker 1: son was the first being. Created In hebrew, culture firstborn
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  Speaker 1: was a title of honor and pre, eminence indicating a
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  Speaker 1: souper superior position and inheritance. Rights the son is the
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  Speaker 1: heir of all, things the one to whom The father
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  Speaker 1: has given authority over all. Creation the relationship between The
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  Speaker 1: father and The son is unique and. Eternal the son
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  Speaker 1: is eternally begotten of The. Father it's hard for, us
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  Speaker 1: bound by time and, space to fully grasp what eternal begetting.
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  Speaker 1: Means it's not like human, birth which occurs at a specific.
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  Speaker 1: Moment it's a continuous and timeless relationship of, origin where
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  Speaker 1: the son always proceeds from The, father yet never had a.
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  Speaker 1: Beginning jesus often spoke of this special. Relationship he would
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  Speaker 1: SAY i and The father are, one or whoever has
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  Speaker 1: seen me has seen The. Father but he also acknowledged
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  Speaker 1: his origin from The. Father The father is greater THAN.
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  Speaker 1: I not greater in divinity or, worth but in the
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  Speaker 1: relational or do within the. Trinity in the prologue to His,
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  Speaker 1: Gospel john refers to The son as The. Word In
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  Speaker 1: john one, fourteen he, writes The word became flesh and
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  Speaker 1: made his dwelling among. Us we have seen his, glory
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  Speaker 1: the glory of the one and Only, son who came
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  Speaker 1: from The father full of grace and. Truth the Eternal,
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  Speaker 1: word who was With god from the, beginning took on
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  Speaker 1: human form and lived among. Us think about, that The
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  Speaker 1: word that created the world's with a simple let there be,
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  Speaker 1: light now had human lips that could get, thirsty a
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  Speaker 1: voice that could grow, hoarse a body that could grow.
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  Speaker 1: Tired The, son without ceasing to be Fully, god became fully.
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  Speaker 1: Man this is the mystery of the Incarnation god with Us.
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  Speaker 1: Immanuel and this incarnation wasn't. Temporary The son didn't just visit.
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  Speaker 1: Humanity he became human. Forever even, now after his resurrection and,
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  Speaker 1: Ascension jesus rem mains The God. Man he brought our
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  Speaker 1: humanity into the very heart of The, trinity, forever uniting
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  Speaker 1: us To god in a way we could never have.
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  Speaker 1: Imagined when the Eternal son became, man he was given
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  Speaker 1: the Name, jesus which means The lord. Saves he was
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  Speaker 1: born In bethlehem to a virgin Named, mary just as
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  Speaker 1: the prophets had foretold centuries. Earlier this birth was unique in.
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  Speaker 1: History conceived by the power of The Holy, Spirit jesus
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  Speaker 1: had no human. Father he was Truly god from the
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  Speaker 1: moment of his, conception But jesus was also truly. Human
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  Speaker 1: he grew up like any other. Child he learned to,
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  Speaker 1: walk to, talk to. Read luke tells us in His,
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  Speaker 1: gospel chapter, two verse fifty two That jesus grew in
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  Speaker 1: wisdom and, stature and in favor With god and. Man
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  Speaker 1: he experienced all the limitations of. Humanity he felt, hunger,
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  Speaker 1: thirst and. Fatigue he wept with, sorrow smiled with, joy
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  Speaker 1: and was moved with compassion for those who. Suffered at
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  Speaker 1: the age of, Thirty jesus began his public. Ministry for
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  Speaker 1: about three, years he traveled Throughout, palestine teaching about The
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  Speaker 1: kingdom Of, god healing the, sick setting the oppressed, free
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  Speaker 1: and raising up. Disciples his teaching was so powerful that
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  Speaker 1: the crowds were, amazed, saying no one ever spoke the
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  Speaker 1: way this man. Does jesus didn't just teach About, god
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  Speaker 1: he Revealed god in. Person at one, Point, philip one
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  Speaker 1: of his, disciples, Said, lord show us The, father and
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  Speaker 1: that will be enough for. Us jesus, replied as recorded
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  Speaker 1: In john chapter, fourteen verse, nine any one who has
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  Speaker 1: seen me has seen The. Father jesus was the perfect
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  Speaker 1: representation of The. Father his, love, compassion, justice and. Wisdom
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  Speaker 1: all of it revealed the heart Of. God jesus life was,
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  Speaker 1: flawless though he was tempted in every, way as we
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  Speaker 1: read In, hebrews he never gave in to. Sin his
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  Speaker 1: enemies constantly tried to find fault in, him but never.
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  Speaker 1: Succeeded even The roman Governor, pilot after an unjust, trial
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  Speaker 1: was forced to, ADMIT i find no basis for a
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  Speaker 1: charge against. Him, yet despite his perfect, Life jesus faced
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  Speaker 1: a brutal. Death betrayed by a, friend abandoned by his,
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  Speaker 1: followers and condemned. Unjustly he was nailed to A roman,
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  Speaker 1: cross the most painful and humiliating form of execution of that.
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  Speaker 1: Time his final hours were marked by intense physical, agony cruel,
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  Speaker 1: mockery and most devastating of, all the sense of abandonment
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  Speaker 1: by The. Father My, God My, God why have you forsaken?
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  Speaker 1: Me he cried. Out but this death was neither accidental
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  Speaker 1: nor a. Defeat it was the exact fulfillment Of god's
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  Speaker 1: divine plan established before the foundation of the. World, jesus
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  Speaker 1: The lamb Of, god willingly offered himself as a sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: for the sins of. Humanity As isaiah had prophesied centuries.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier he was pierced for our, transgressions crushed for our.
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  Speaker 1: Iniquities the punishment that brought us peace was upon, him
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  Speaker 1: and by his wounds we are. Healed yet death could
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  Speaker 1: not hold the author of. Life on the morning of
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  Speaker 1: the third, Day jesus rose, again leaving the two empty
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  Speaker 1: and appearing to his followers over a span of forty.
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  Speaker 1: Days this resurrection was not merely a return to earthly
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  Speaker 1: life Like lazarus. Experienced it was a transformation into a
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  Speaker 1: new kind of, life a glorified body no longer subject to.
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  Speaker 1: Death after completing his mission On, Earth jesus visibly ascended
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  Speaker 1: Into heaven in the presence of his. Disciples, There as
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  Speaker 1: The book Of hebrews tells, us he sat down at
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  Speaker 1: the right hand of The majesty in. Heaven the son
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  Speaker 1: who out of love descended into the depths of human,
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  Speaker 1: humiliation is now exalted to the highest place in the.
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  Speaker 1: Universe As paul writes In, Philippians god exalted him to
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  Speaker 1: the highest place and gave him the name that is
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  Speaker 1: above every, name that at the name Of, jesus every
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  Speaker 1: knee should bow in heaven and on, earth and under
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  Speaker 1: the earth and every tongue confess That Jesus christ Is
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  Speaker 1: lord to the glory Of. God The, father the third
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  Speaker 1: person of The, trinity is often the most. Misunderstood some
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  Speaker 1: think of The Holy spirit as an impersonal, force a divine,
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  Speaker 1: energy or simply the power Of god at. Work but
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  Speaker 1: The bible clearly reveals that The Holy spirit is a,
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  Speaker 1: person just as real and distinct as The father and The.
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  Speaker 1: Son how do we know The Holy spirit is a?
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  Speaker 1: Person first Because scripture attributes personal characteristics to. Him The
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  Speaker 1: spirit thinks and. Knows As paul writes In First corinthians chapter,
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  Speaker 1: two verse, ten The spirit searches all, things even the
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  Speaker 1: deep things Of. God an impersonal force cannot search or.
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  Speaker 1: Know The Holy spirit also has. Emotions paul WARN's In
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  Speaker 1: ephesians chapter, four verse, thirty do not grieve The Holy
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  Speaker 1: spirit Of. GOD a force cannot be. Grieved only a
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  Speaker 1: person can feel. Sorrow in, addition The Holy spirit makes.
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  Speaker 1: Decisions when the Early church sent out, missionaries it was
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  Speaker 1: The spirit who chose. Them as we read In acts chapter,
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  Speaker 1: thirteen verse. Two while they were worshiping The lord and,
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  Speaker 1: fasting The Holy spirit, said set apart for Me barnabas
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  Speaker 1: And soul for the work to WHICH i have called.
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  Speaker 1: Them notice the use of the pronoun. Me The spirit
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  Speaker 1: speaks as a. Person this divine person is Fully, god
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  Speaker 1: equal to The father and The son in nature and.
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  Speaker 1: Divinity peter makes this clear when he Confronts anonius about his. Lie,
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  Speaker 1: annius how is it That satan has so filled your
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  Speaker 1: heart that you have lied to The Holy? Spirit he
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  Speaker 1: asks In acts chapter, five verse, three and then, adds
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  Speaker 1: you have not lied just to human, beings but To.
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  Speaker 1: God to lie to The Holy spirit is to lie To,
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  Speaker 1: god because The Holy spirit Is. God in the divine
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  Speaker 1: order of, relations The spirit eternally proceeds from The father
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  Speaker 1: and The. Son jesus explains this In john chapter, fifteen
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty. Six when the advocate, comes WHOM i will
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  Speaker 1: send to you from The, father The spirit of, truth
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  Speaker 1: who goes out from The. Father he will testify about.
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  Speaker 1: Me note that the spirit comes from The, father is
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  Speaker 1: sent by The, son and his mission is to testify
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  Speaker 1: about The. Son this eternal procession must not be understood
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  Speaker 1: as if The spirit had a. Beginning just as The
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  Speaker 1: son is eternally begotten of The, father the spirit eternally
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  Speaker 1: proceeds from The father and The. Son there was never
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  Speaker 1: a moment when The spirit began to. Exist he has
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  Speaker 1: always existed as the third person of The. Trinity jesus
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  Speaker 1: referred to The Holy spirit as the comforter or the,
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  Speaker 1: advocate depending on the. Translation In john chapter, fourteen verse,
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  Speaker 1: sixteen he, says AND i will ask The, father and
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  Speaker 1: he will give you another comforter to be with you.
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  Speaker 1: Forever The greek word used, here, paraclitos means someone who
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  Speaker 1: is called to be, alongside to, help defend and. Comfort
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  Speaker 1: this is the role of The Holy spirit in the
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  Speaker 1: life of the. Believer he stands by our, side always
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  Speaker 1: present to help, us defend us and comfort. Us jesus
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  Speaker 1: promised that this comforter would remain with us, forever a
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  Speaker 1: constant and permanent pres presence in the lives of those
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  Speaker 1: who belonged To. Christ on the night before his, Crucifixion
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  Speaker 1: jesus told his disciples that it was actually good for
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  Speaker 1: them that he was going, away because then he would
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  Speaker 1: send The. Spirit it may have seemed like a strange
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  Speaker 1: statement at the, time but now we. Understand While jesus
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  Speaker 1: was on, earth he was limited to a physical body
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  Speaker 1: present in only one place at a. Time The, spirit,
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  Speaker 1: however can be with all believers simultaneously anywhere in the.
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  Speaker 1: World The Holy spirit has been active since the creation
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  Speaker 1: of the. World in the second verse of The, Bible
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  Speaker 1: genesis one, two we read that The spirit Of god
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  Speaker 1: was hovering over the surface of the, waters but his
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  Speaker 1: ministry is especially visible in the lives of believers and
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  Speaker 1: in The church Of. Christ one of The Holy spirit's
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  Speaker 1: primary roles is to inspire the. Scriptures peter explains this
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  Speaker 1: process in His Second, Letter chapter, one verse twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: Four prophecy never had its origin in the human, will but,
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  Speaker 1: prophets though, human spoke From god as they were carried
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  Speaker 1: along by The Holy. Spirit The bible is not merely
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  Speaker 1: a book written by wise. Men it is The word
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  Speaker 1: Of god inspired by The Holy spirit through human. Authors
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  Speaker 1: this inspiration does not mean that The spirit simply dictated
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  Speaker 1: words for the writers to record. Mechanically, instead he worked
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  Speaker 1: through the, personalities, styles and unique circumstances of each, author
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  Speaker 1: guiding them to write exactly What god intended to communicate without.
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  Speaker 1: Error The Holy spirit is also active in the regeneration
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  Speaker 1: and conversion of the. Sinner jesus explained To nicodemus In
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  Speaker 1: john the three. Five unless one is born of water
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  Speaker 1: and The, spirit he cannot enter The kingdom Of. God
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  Speaker 1: this being born of the spirit is what we call,
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  Speaker 1: regeneration The Holy spirit giving spiritual life to some one
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  Speaker 1: who was spiritually dead in their. Sins even before, conversion
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  Speaker 1: The spirit is at work in the heart of the,
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  Speaker 1: unbeliever convicting them of, sin, righteousness and. Judgment just As
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  Speaker 1: jesus promised In john. Sixteen he opens spiritual eyes to
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  Speaker 1: see the truth of The, gospel draws people To, christ and,
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  Speaker 1: then at the moment of, faith performs the miracle of new.
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  Speaker 1: Birth after, conversion The spirit takes up permanent residence in the.
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  Speaker 1: Believer do you not know that your bodies are temples
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  Speaker 1: of The Holy, spirit who is in? You paul asks
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  Speaker 1: In First corinthians six. Nineteen this in dwelling is one
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  Speaker 1: of the great distinctions between believers in The old And New.
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  Speaker 1: Testaments before The spirit would come upon select individuals for specific.
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  Speaker 1: Tasks now he dwells in every child Of. God this
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  Speaker 1: in dwelling presence of The spirit is what makes sanctification,
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  Speaker 1: possible the process by which we become more Like. Christ
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  Speaker 1: paul contrasts a life controlled by the flesh with one
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  Speaker 1: led by the spirit In galatians. Five the flesh produces
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  Speaker 1: destructive works like, immorality, hatred and, envy but the spirit
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  Speaker 1: produces a beautiful fruit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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  Speaker 1: gentleness and self. Control sanctification doesn't happen automatically or. Instantly
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  Speaker 1: it's a cooperative process in which we are called to
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  Speaker 1: walk by the spirit or be filled with the. Spirit
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  Speaker 1: As paul exhorts In ephesians five, eighteen the more we
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  Speaker 1: yield to The spirit's, control the more his fruit becomes
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  Speaker 1: evident in our. Lives in addition to the fruit of The,
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  Speaker 1: spirit there are also the gifts of The, spirit special
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  Speaker 1: abilities given to believers for the common good of the.
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  Speaker 1: Church paul lists several of these In First corinthians twelve, wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing, miracles,
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  Speaker 1: prophecy discernment of, spirits, tongues and interpretation of. Tongues In romans,
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  Speaker 1: twelve he mentions others, serving, teaching, encouraging, giving, leading and showing.
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  Speaker 1: Mercy these gifts are distributed by The spirit as he.
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  Speaker 1: Wills not everyone receives the same. Gifts the purpose is
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  Speaker 1: not self, glorification but the building up of the body Of.
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  Speaker 1: Christ As paul explains In First Corinthian's eye twelve, seven
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  Speaker 1: to each one is given the manifestation of The spirit
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  Speaker 1: for the common. Good The spirit is also our guide and.
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  Speaker 1: Teacher jesus promised In john sixteen. Thirteen when he The
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  Speaker 1: spirit Of truth, comes he will guide you into all.
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  Speaker 1: Truth The spirit helps us, understand And god's word gives
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  Speaker 1: us wisdom for difficult decisions and directs us in the
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  Speaker 1: path we should. Follow when we speak of the relationships
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  Speaker 1: among the persons of The, trinity we are touching on
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  Speaker 1: a profound. Mystery how can three distinct persons be one Single?
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  Speaker 1: God how do they relate to one? Another The bible
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  Speaker 1: gives us glimpses of this divine. Dynamic though our understanding
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  Speaker 1: is always limited by our finite, Minds one thing we
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  Speaker 1: see clearly is that there is order within the trinitarian.
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  Speaker 1: Relationships The son is sent by The. Father The spirit
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  Speaker 1: is sent by both The father and The. Son jesus
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  Speaker 1: often spoke of doing the will of The, father never
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  Speaker 1: the other way. Around In john five, nineteen he, says very,
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  Speaker 1: TRULY i tell, you The son can do nothing by.
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  Speaker 1: Himself he can do only what he sees his father.
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  Speaker 1: Doing because whatever The father, does the son also. Does
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  Speaker 1: this submission of the son to The father does not imply.
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  Speaker 1: Inferiority theologians call this economic submission a submission of role or,
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  Speaker 1: function not of nature or. Worth the son is fully
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  Speaker 1: equal to The father in, divinity power and, glory but
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  Speaker 1: voluntarily takes on a role of submission within the economy
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: of The. Trinity it's like a well choreographed dance where
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  Speaker 1: each dancer has a specific. Role one may lead and
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  Speaker 1: the other, follow but both are equally vital to the
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  Speaker 1: beauty of the. Performance in the dance of The, trinity
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  Speaker 1: The father, leads The son, follows and The spirit completes
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  Speaker 1: the perfect. Movement the communication between the divine persons is
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: constant and. Perfect jesus often spoke of his fellowship with The.
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  Speaker 1: Father In john five, twenty he, says for The father
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  Speaker 1: loves the son and shows him all he. Does this
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  Speaker 1: is communication grounded in. Love The father shares everything with the,
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  Speaker 1: son and the son responds with loving. Obedience The Holy
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  Speaker 1: spirit is also involved in this divine, Communication paul says
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  Speaker 1: In First, Corinthians chapter, two verse, ten that The spirit
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  Speaker 1: searches all, things even the deep things Of. God The
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  Speaker 1: spirit fully knows the thoughts of The father and The,
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  Speaker 1: son and communicates the divine will to. Believers the three
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  Speaker 1: persons of The trinity share the same. Glory jesus prays
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  Speaker 1: to The father In john chapter, seventeen verse, five and, Now,
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  Speaker 1: father glorify me in your presence with the GLORY i
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  Speaker 1: had with you before the world. Began this eternal glory
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  Speaker 1: is equally shared by the three divine. Persons, however each
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  Speaker 1: person also glorifies the. Others The son glorifies The father
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  Speaker 1: through his perfect. Obedience The father glorifies The, son As
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  Speaker 1: jesus says In john chapter, eight verse fifty, Four My,
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  Speaker 1: father whom you claim as Your, god is the one
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  Speaker 1: who glorifies, me and The spirit glorifies The. Sun As
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  Speaker 1: jesus explains In john chapter, sixteen verse, fourteen he will
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  Speaker 1: glorify me because it is from me that he will
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  Speaker 1: receive what he will make known to. You this mutual
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  Speaker 1: glorification reflects the perfect love that exists among the persons
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  Speaker 1: of The. Trinity there is no selfishness or. Competition each
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  Speaker 1: person delights in exalting the. Others it is a relationship
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  Speaker 1: of total self, giving an eternal cycle of love that
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  Speaker 1: overflows into. Creation despite their personal distinctions and different, roles
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  Speaker 1: the three persons work in perfect. Unity jesus emphasizes this
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  Speaker 1: when he says In john chapter, five verse, seventeen My
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  Speaker 1: father is always at his work to this very, day
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  Speaker 1: AND i too am. Working and In john chapter, six,
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  Speaker 1: exteen verse, thirteen he says of The, spirit he will
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  Speaker 1: not speak on his, own he will speak only what he.
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  Speaker 1: Hears this unity of purpose and operation means that although
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  Speaker 1: certain works may be more specifically associated with one person
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  Speaker 1: of The, trinity such as creation with The, father redemption
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  Speaker 1: with The, son and sanctification with The, spirit all three
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  Speaker 1: persons are involved in every divine. Action The father creates
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  Speaker 1: through The son and by The. Spirit The son redeems
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  Speaker 1: with The father's, approval and by The spirit's. Power The
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  Speaker 1: spirit sanctifies according to The father's will and based on
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  Speaker 1: The son's. Work everything we learn about The trinity is
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  Speaker 1: not just for satisfying theological. Curiosity it's meant to transform
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  Speaker 1: the way we. Live the doctrine of The trinity has
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  Speaker 1: deep practical implications for our daily. Lives, first The trinity
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  Speaker 1: teaches us about true. Love from all, eternity the three
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  Speaker 1: divine persons have lived in perfect communion of. Love The
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  Speaker 1: father loves The, son The son loves The, father and
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  Speaker 1: both love and are loved by The. Spirit this love
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  Speaker 1: did not begin with. Creation god did not need to
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  Speaker 1: create human beings in order to have someone to. Love
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  Speaker 1: he was already love in himself within The trinitarian. Communion
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  Speaker 1: When jesus prays In john chapter, seventeen verse twenty, four he, Says,
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  Speaker 1: FATHER i want those you have given me to be
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  Speaker 1: with me WHERE i, am and to see my, glory
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  Speaker 1: the glory you have given me because you loved me
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  Speaker 1: before the creation of the. World this eternal love of
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  Speaker 1: The father for The son is the model for our
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  Speaker 1: love for one. Another jesus says In john chapter, thirteen
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  Speaker 1: verse thirty, four AS i have loved, you so you
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  Speaker 1: must love one. Another The christian community is meant to
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  Speaker 1: reflect The trinitarian. Community just as The, Father, son And
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  Speaker 1: spirit live in perfect, harmony, unity and, love we too
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  Speaker 1: should strive for that kind of relationship with one. Another
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  Speaker 1: it's no coincidence That jesus prays that all of them
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  Speaker 1: may be One, father just as you are in me
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  Speaker 1: AND i am in. You The trinity also transforms our prayer.
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  Speaker 1: Life when we, pray we are entering into a conversation
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  Speaker 1: that is already happening within The. Trinity In romans chapter,
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  Speaker 1: eight verse twenty, Six paul, explains in the same, way
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  Speaker 1: The spirit helps us in our. Weakness we do not
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  Speaker 1: know what we ought to pray, for but The spirit
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  Speaker 1: himself intercedes for us through wordless. Groans our prayer is
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  Speaker 1: directed to The father through The. Son in the power
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  Speaker 1: of The, Spirit jesus taught us to pray Our, father
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  Speaker 1: showing that our prayer should be primarily addressed to The.
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  Speaker 1: Father In john chapter, fourteen verse, Thirteen jesus, says AND
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  Speaker 1: i will do whatever you ask in my, name indicating
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  Speaker 1: that we pray through him as our. Mediator And paul
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  Speaker 1: reminds us In ephesians that we have access to The
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  Speaker 1: father by one. Spirit when we pray this, way we
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge the personal distinctions in The trinity and how each
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  Speaker 1: person participates in our communion With. God it's not a magic,
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  Speaker 1: formula but a spiritual. Reality The spirit moves us to,
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  Speaker 1: pray The son presents our prayers to The, father and
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  Speaker 1: The father answers because of his love for us and The.
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  Speaker 1: Son The trinity also helps us understand who we are
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  Speaker 1: as human. Beings genesis tells us that we were created
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  Speaker 1: in the image and likeness Of. God Since god is,
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  Speaker 1: triune his image in us must in some way reflect
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  Speaker 1: that relational. Nature it's no, surprise, then that we were
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  Speaker 1: made for, relationship first With god and then with each.
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  Speaker 1: Other it is not good for man to be. Alone
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  Speaker 1: As god declared in The garden Of, eden we were
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  Speaker 1: designed to live in, community to love and be, loved
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  Speaker 1: to give and, receive to share and participate in one another's.
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  Speaker 1: Lives each person, reflects in some way aspects of The.
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  Speaker 1: Trinity our ability to, think, choose and create Echoes god's,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: intelligence freedom and. Creativity our need to love and be
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  Speaker 1: loved mirrors the love that has always existed between The, Father,
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: son And. Spirit our ability to communicate through language reflects
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  Speaker 1: the perfect communication within The. Trinity, finally The trinity gives
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  Speaker 1: us a glimpse of our ultimate. Destiny jesus praise In
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  Speaker 1: john chapter, seventeen verse twenty. THREE i in them and
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  Speaker 1: you in, me so that they may be brought to complete.
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  Speaker 1: Unity god's plan is to bring us into The trinitarian,
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  Speaker 1: communion to share in the love and life that have
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  Speaker 1: always existed among The, Father son And. Spirit C. Y.
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  Speaker 1: S lewis compares this to being invited into a divine.
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  Speaker 1: Dance the dance of The trinity has been going on
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  Speaker 1: for all, eternity a perfect movement of, love, joy and.
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  Speaker 1: Creativity Now god reaches out his hand and invites us
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  Speaker 1: into the dance to join in the divine. Life this
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  Speaker 1: is The christian, hope not just to live and, forever
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  Speaker 1: but to live in perfect communion With god and with one.
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  Speaker 1: Another As john writes in His First, Letter chapter, one verse,
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: three what we have seen and, heard we also proclaim to,
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  Speaker 1: you so that you too may have fellowship with. Us
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  Speaker 1: and indeed our fellowship is with The father and with
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  Speaker 1: his Son Jesus. Christ this, fellowship which begins now through,
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  Speaker 1: faith will be made complete when we See god face to,
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  Speaker 1: face As paul says In First corinthians thirteen, twelve for
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  Speaker 1: now we see only a reflection as in a. Mirror
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  Speaker 1: then we shall see face to. Face NOW i know in.
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  Speaker 1: Part THEN i shall know fully even AS i am fully.
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  Speaker 1: Known we've now reached the end of our journey exploring
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  Speaker 1: the mystery of The, trinity One god in three. Persons
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: we've come to know The father as the source of
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  Speaker 1: all love and, life The son who became human to save,
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  Speaker 1: us and The Holy spirit who dwells within us and
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  Speaker 1: transforms us day by. Day this isn't just theoretical. Knowledge
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: The trinity reveals Who god truly, is an eternal community
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  Speaker 1: of perfect, love and invites us to share in that divine.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: Fellowship as we grow in our understanding of The, father The,
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  Speaker 1: son and The Holy, spirit we are transformed to more
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  Speaker 1: clearly Reflect god's image in our lives and. Relationships if
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